Webinar Title: Cybersecurity While Traveling
Summary: Recommendations for cybersecurity while traveling abroad often sound like they were taken directly from the plot of a spy movie: use clean “throw-away” devices, accounts, and passwords and assume you’ll be compromised. Similar, although slightly less scary, recommendations abound for travelers going on vacation: don’t post your location online and don’t use public WiFi. In this presentation, the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) will provide insight into the targeting, theft, scams, and espionage that have driven the creation of these often-touted recommendations so you can intelligently choose which recommendations are appropriate for your level of risk.
Presenters:
Stacey Wright, MS-ISAC Intelligence Program Manager
Eugene Kipniss, MS-ISAC Sr. Program Specialist
Presenter BIO’s:
Stacey A. Wright is the Senior Intel Program Manager at the Center for Internet Security (CIS), where she runs the Intel Team for the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC). She co-developed the MS-ISAC Intel Team to focus on providing strategic and operational cyber threat intelligence to state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) governments. As of 2017, the team publishes more than 100 formal products per year containing timely, actionable intelligence. The products provide SLTT government-focused insight on risks, actors, trends, vulnerabilities, and incident response, allowing CISOs to improve visibility, detection, accuracy, and strategically align resources to the current cyber environment. In addition to her work at CIS, Stacey teaches two graduate cybersecurity and threat intelligence classes at the State University of New York, College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security, and Cyber Security. Prior to her employment at CIS, Stacey was the Cyber Intelligence Analyst for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Albany Division, where she was responsible for coordinating the local cyber intelligence program and served as the FBI’s liaison to the MS-ISAC. Stacey began her career as an Information Systems Specialist for the Cambridge, MA, Emergency Communications and Fire Departments. She received her Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice from Northeastern University, and her Master of Business Administration from the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She is a formally trained Intelligence Analyst and a national speaker on cybercrime.
Eugene Kipniss is a Senior Program Specialist for the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center, a division of the Center for Internet Security. He works on the Stakeholder Engagement team with our nation’s State, Local, Territorial, and Tribal (SLTT) governments in order to provide them with access to the many MS-ISAC services and information products which support organizational security posture and awareness. Eugene focuses on managing the accounts of hundreds of MS-ISAC member governments and organizations across the Northeastern and Midwestern U.S. Additionally, he co-chairs the MS-ISAC’s Education and Awareness working group that focuses on bringing cybersecurity knowledge to both end-users and IT staff alike.
